Cooperation in internal security affairs between Hungary and the United States is “excellent”, Sándor Pintér, Hungary’s interior minister, said late on Monday in Washington, DC, after talks with Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security. The two officials signed an agreement on cooperation between the United States and Hungary on combatting terrorism as part of the minister’s two-day visit.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has visited the two police officers injured in a recent explosion in Budapest in the company of Interior Minister Sándor Pintér, photos published on the police.hu website show. In an interview broadcast on public news channel M1 earlier, Orbán said he had instructed Pintér to “hunt [the perpetrator] down” and “extract out of him” what he did and why. He added that ...

The nine new prisons currently under construction in Hungary will be capable of housing a total of 6,000 inmates and will resolve the problem of prison overcrowding in the country when these facilities open in 2018, the National Command of Law Enforcement (BVOP) quoted Interior Minister Sándor Pintér as saying.

The usually well-informed 444.hu published a story that has shaken the world of the Hungarian media. It was about an unnamed journalist (G.) who in December 2015 was approached by two men identifying themselves as agents of the Alkotmányvédelmi Hivatal (AH) or, in English, the Constitution Protection Office.

A commemoration was held in front of Budapest’s US embassy on Sunday, to mark the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC. Addressing the ceremony, US ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell said that September 11 was a day of pointless violence, but at the same time of heroism and solidarity, too.

The interior and defence ministers of Hungary and Austria met at Röszke, in southern Hungary, on Thursday, to discuss cooperation against illegal migration. The meeting focused on ways Austria could contribute to border control in southern Hungary, Hungarian interior minister Sandor Pinter told a press conference after the talks.

The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) called on Interior Minister Sándor Pintér to investigate the actions of security guards in Budapest’s City Park. DK accuses the guards of “acting above the law”. Deputy party leader Ágnes Vadai said that in recent months, “groups of young skinheads” had appeared every time the interests of ruling Fidesz or the government had to be protected.

Poland will send another contingent of border guards to help patrol Hungary’s southern border, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said after a meeting with his Visegrad Four (V4) counterparts in Warsaw on Monday.

Cooperation in internal security affairs between Hungary and the United States is “excellent”, Sándor Pintér, Hungary’s interior minister, said late on Monday in Washington, DC, after talks with Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security. The two officials signed an agreement on cooperation between the United States and Hungary on combatting terrorism as part of the minister’s two-day visit.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has visited the two police officers injured in a recent explosion in Budapest in the company of Interior Minister Sándor Pintér, photos published on the police.hu website show. In an interview broadcast on public news channel M1 earlier, Orbán said he had instructed Pintér to “hunt [the perpetrator] down” and “extract out of him” what he did and why. He added that ...

The nine new prisons currently under construction in Hungary will be capable of housing a total of 6,000 inmates and will resolve the problem of prison overcrowding in the country when these facilities open in 2018, the National Command of Law Enforcement (BVOP) quoted Interior Minister Sándor Pintér as saying.

The usually well-informed 444.hu published a story that has shaken the world of the Hungarian media. It was about an unnamed journalist (G.) who in December 2015 was approached by two men identifying themselves as agents of the Alkotmányvédelmi Hivatal (AH) or, in English, the Constitution Protection Office.

A commemoration was held in front of Budapest’s US embassy on Sunday, to mark the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC. Addressing the ceremony, US ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell said that September 11 was a day of pointless violence, but at the same time of heroism and solidarity, too.

The interior and defence ministers of Hungary and Austria met at Röszke, in southern Hungary, on Thursday, to discuss cooperation against illegal migration. The meeting focused on ways Austria could contribute to border control in southern Hungary, Hungarian interior minister Sandor Pinter told a press conference after the talks.

The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) called on Interior Minister Sándor Pintér to investigate the actions of security guards in Budapest’s City Park. DK accuses the guards of “acting above the law”. Deputy party leader Ágnes Vadai said that in recent months, “groups of young skinheads” had appeared every time the interests of ruling Fidesz or the government had to be protected.

Poland will send another contingent of border guards to help patrol Hungary’s southern border, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said after a meeting with his Visegrad Four (V4) counterparts in Warsaw on Monday.

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